A new SAI Campaign

[vonfriedman]

I am enclosing here a completely new campaign around the  naval war in the Mediterranean theatre.

This campaign is based on a counterfactual history of the First World War.

It is assumed that in August 1914 war breaks out between the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy) and the Entente between France and United Kingdom.

For the Entente the order of battle corresponds to the effective disposition of the French fleet and of the British Mediterranean Fleet on August 1st 1914. For the Triple Alliance the order of battle corresponds to the Naval Agreements signed in 1913 by the three admiralties.

Turkey remains neutral, but closes the Dardanelles Strait, so that the Russian fleet is unable to participate in the Mediterranean war operations.

On land and in other theatres of naval warfare, offensives and battles take place almost as they did during the First World War, but with some important differences.

The Russians are not defeated at Tannenberg, nor in the further developments of the war on the eastern front.

On the western front in France the war turns into a bloody trench warfare without decisive advantages for either side.

In winter 1914-15 a Russian counteroffensive drives back the Austrians.

Following these setbacks the Austrians secretely start peace talks with the Entente.

An Italian offensive on the Alps front is delayed by winter and subsequently fails with heavy losses.
The feeble popular support to the war vanishes and Italy seeks for a separate armistice, that is soon followed by general peace talks.

The war ends on December 31st 1915 without victors or vanquished, apart the naval war  in the Mediterranean, that is up to you to win.

Thank you in advance for any error or improvement advice.

Thanks to bcoopactual for having kindly designed a great flag for the Triple Alliance.




Med campaign.zip (86.22 KB)

[randomizer]

First off, thank you for your efforts to keep SaI relevant as it is still my favourite Fredrik Wallen work. Will give it a try.

-C

Edit:

Cannot run the campaign at all. It is missing flags, at least half-dozen ship files, world layers and consistently produces multiple access violations.

[vonfriedman]

Sorry for the malfunction. Everything was fine on my PC.
I enclose files with layers (landlayer 1 is World2, landlayer2 is NEShallow) and flags.
If you tell me the names of the ships you do not have the files on, I will also send those.

Layers flags.zip (30.74 KB)

[randomizer]

New data, the campaign specific Layer files need to be in the ...\Scenarios folder not the ...Scenario\Campaign folder. You might want to consider adjusting your download accordingly so the file need only be unzipped into the Steam and Iron folder and everything goes where it belongs.

Will put the flags where they belong and try again.

-C

Edit:

Missing designs are:
Ersatz Monarch
St. Bon
Agordat
Dardo
Torpedo Boat
Fraint
Transport
Alarm

Noted that with the exception of Ersatz Monarch all are used in SAI-RJW so the question becomes: are these straight copy paste from that game or were the recreated especially for you campaign in SAI?

[randomizer]

New data. Cranked out my own Ersatz Monarch.sdf and put the flags where they belong and then copy/pasted the others over from SAI-RJW. You should include them in the upload since not everybody who might be interested is certain to own that game. Started as the Entente and was immediately penalized -5000 VP for having fewer Dreadnoughts than the enemy. Presumably this is by design.

Will advise how the thing proceeds.

-C

[randomizer]

PM sent.

[vonfriedman]

The Ersatz Monarch BBs were essentially Tegetthoffs with thicker armor and fewer larger guns.

Your version is probably better than mine.

[randomizer]

For those interested, VonFriedman has managed the very difficult (at times) SAI Campaign Editor and produced an effective Med naval campaign for an alternate reality that is well explained in the Campaign Description. This has been long an ask of the Community so kudos for sharing with us.

My take so far is that everything seems to work as intended and the campaign is somewhat weighted for the Central Powers but certainly worthy of spending time with.

[vonfriedman]

Sept 25, 2019 9:46:28 GMT -6 randomizer said:

For those interested, VonFriedman has managed the very difficult (at times) SAI Campaign Editor and produced an effective Med naval campaign for an alternate reality that is well explained in the Campaign Description. This has been long an ask of the Community so kudos for sharing with us.

My take so far is that everything seems to work as intended and the campaign is somewhat weighted for the Central Powers but certainly worthy of spending time with.

An improved version

Thanks to the suggestions of randomizer, who also kindly wanted to participate in the drafting of a "Short history of the war", I am now able to include an improved version of a Mediterranean campaign 1914-15. fought between the Triple Alliance (Austria Hungary, Italy and Germany) and the Franco-British Entente.
The changes have been quite numerous and the main flaws have been, as I hope, eliminated.
 
Above all, as suggested by randomizer, the presence of the Royal Navy has been substantially increased, with the benefit of both historical realism and game balance.


For reasons of file size I will have to insert the "Short history" later.

Updated campaign.zip (50.68 KB)

[vonfriedman]

Jan 11, 2020 4:44:43 GMT -6 vonfriedman said:

Here I insert the short history of the war, in which the naval campaign in the Mediterranean fits
In remaking history I had fun adding some not pure fantasy episodes, which I hope will interest you.

I repeat my thanks to bcoopactual for the splendid flag of the Triple Alliance.

A short history 01.pdf (877.4 KB)

[vonfriedman]

I include here an appendix to the "Short history", relating to the ships and the theater of operations of this campaign.

A short history 02.pdf (389.67 KB)

[gregb7111]

The Mediterrnean Campaign has indeed long been an interest of mine.
Thank you so very much for the hard work this has entailed.
Is there a reasonably easy way for me to make it more historical,
i.e. make the Italians neutral at first or making them entente
at the beginning?